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Samsung Explains Galaxy Smartphone Security Flaw

PYMNTS

With a problem that stems from some silicone cases, Samsung explained a significant security flaw that could allow anyone’s fingerprint to unlock the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 family of smartphones. The news outlet wasn’t able to experience the problem on a demo Galaxy Note 10 device.

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Watch 10 Fintech Startups Pitch at FIS Demo Day 2020 (April 14)

Fintech Labs Insights

Cirrus Secure 7-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Cirrus Secure. Description: Secure document portal for lenders. LeapXL 6-minute demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. Mall IQ 7-min demo @FIS Fintech Accelerator Demo Day. HQ: Denver, CO. Founded: 2014. Funding: $5M.

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Theranos Lays Off Most Of Its Workforce

PYMNTS

The move comes as CEO Elizabeth Holmes agreed to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over “massive fraud” charges lodged against the company.

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Why banks can no longer settle for ‘minimum security requirements’

NCR

If minimum security requirements are what financial institutions are aiming for, we as an industry are doing it wrong. The security of our customers’ private information and cash should be our greatest focus. As a result, we need to do much better at what the industry calls its minimum security requirement. So what do we do?

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Don’t miss these IBM sessions at Money20/20

Insights on Business

We’ll discuss the right platforms to handle payment volumes, putting APIs in place and preventing fraud in payments and more. See how banks drive payment innovation by combining IoT, real-time payment processing and robust fraud prevention. Includes a live demo of voice-initiated commerce. The future of payment fraud prevention.

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B2B SaaS Dominates Newest Y Combinator Class

PYMNTS

Of the 132 startups that launched at Y Combinator’s two-day pitching event, Demo Day, 30 percent are B2B software firms — more than any other vertical. Anti-fraud software Berbix also pitched, as did Dataform, a data management company targeting the pharmaceutical space. Healthcare startups followed at 28 percent of the pitches.

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Passwords Suck – Bring on Biometrics!

Celent Banking

At a conference in 2015, a small start-up, @Pay , a low-friction mobile giving platform, offered attendees a free t-shirt in return for seeing a brief demo. I must confess that I was more interested in the t-shirt than @Pay’s product demo. At ATMs – it contributes to skimming fraud. The line went out the door!